March 2026 delivered one of the sharpest governance enforcement cases in recent UK memory. The FCA fined John Wood Group PLC £12.9m for publishing misleading financial results across 2022, 2023, and the first half of 2024. This was a period during which the Aberdeen-headquartered engineering consultancy was haemorrhaging money
The governance community has spent three years treating AI as a boardroom conversation topic. That phase is closing. Fewer than 40% of boards have sufficient AI understanding to provide effective oversight, yet CEOs now rank AI investment as their top priority. The 2026 mandate for directors: move from AI strategy
On 18 March 2026, the European Commission unveiled its most ambitious company law proposal in decades: EU Inc., a single optional corporate form available to any founder across all 27 member states. The concept is simple at one level; incorporate digitally in roughly 48 hours, for under €100, with no
